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How long before a cut heals.

Brooklin
Brooklin
So, about a month ago I nearly fell down the stairs in my apartment building. I missed a step and luckily was able to grab onto a rail before tumbling down. I am 64 years old and have osteoporosis along with a recently diagnosed DVT. Now I have a dime sized red scaly patch on the lower part of my leg. I cannot remember if I scraped my DVT leg when I started to fall down the stairs. My vasular surgeon took a look at it when I asked him to but he fluffed it off.
My question is, does it take longer to heal when you are taking Warfarin?
Don't know if this is psoriasis either or if it's just a scrape that has not healed (which is pretty disturbing to me).
rmb
rmb
I have heard that it can sometimes takes longer to heal while on warfarin. My GI doc says so when it comes to polyp removal in the colon. But I don't know for sure or to what extend. I had gall bladder surgery (laparoscopic) and I followed up with my surgeon two weeks later for a check in. I had a rather large incision in my belly button due to the size of my gallbladder. My surgeon said she'd never seen someone heal so quickly and cleanly. So who knows.

If your not experiencing ongoing bleeding or oozing at the site or it's not getting infected, I'd not worry about it.
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